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A Brazilian student has sold her virginity in an online auction for US$780,000 as part of a documentary organised by an Australian filmmaker, although a man who did the same only fetched US$3,000. Catarina Migliorini, 20, was the subject of 15...

Rock legends the Rolling Stones were due to play a surprise mini-gig in Paris Thursday and all 350 tickets priced at 15 euros ($20) each were snapped up in minutes. “The Rolling Stones are playing a short warm-up gig tonight … in...

Michael Mann, a scientist in the centre of the climate wars, has sued a rightwing thinktank and a magazine for comparing him to the convicted sex offender and disgraced football coach Jerry Sandusky and accusing him of academic fraud. Mann, a...

WASHINGTON — Combative US conservative pundit Ann Coulter came under fire Wednesday from a Special Olympian with Down syndrome after she branded President Barack Obama a “retard” on Twitter. “Come on Ms Coulter, you...

LOS ANGELES — Troubled Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is suing the publishers of US magazine Life and Style for $50 million over a cover claiming he had abandoned his daughter Suri, his lawyer said Wednesday. The weekly’s July 30 issue...

The conservative owner of both of San Diego’s major newspapers failed to inform his editorial staff and at least one former local politician of his financial involvement with a recent anti-Barack Obama film. According to The Associated...

The former head of the BBC on Wednesday denied any role in shelving an investigation into allegations of widespread abuse of underage girls by the late British TV star Jimmy Savile. Mark Thompson, who is set to become CEO of the New York Times...

LOS ANGELES — “Top Gun” director Tony Scott had traces of anti-depressant and sleep-inducing drugs in his body when he killed himself by jumping from a California bridge, according to coroners. Scott did not have any life-threatening...

The petition website Change.org plans to implement new “open” advertising guidelines, eliminating their policy of only partnering with those who shared their progressive values. The site’s new ad policy will “now be a...

LONDON — Ex-England football boss Sven-Goran Eriksson and a former nanny to the Beckham family are taking legal action against Britain’s Mirror Group Newspapers over alleged phone hacking, according to Sky News. Media lawyer Mark Lewis...

NEW YORK — Photos and art depicting some of the most inaccessible and eye-catching places around the world will go on auction in a sale of National Geographic archive works. The collection is expected to raise more than $3 million when it goes...

Canada’s national daily, The Globe and Mail, on Monday began charging readers a Can$20 monthly subscription to access news on its website. The Toronto-based newspaper’s print edition on Monday was wrapped in an advertisement for the...

Fans of Comedy Central’s faux rightwinger Stephen Colbert will be pleased to learn that he’s set for a cameo in the second movie in Peter Jackson’s forthcoming trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit.”...

Unfolding claims of sexual abuse against late BBC star Jimmy Savile have plunged Britain’s national broadcaster into its biggest crisis for 50 years, a senior reporter has warned. Veteran BBC foreign editor John Simpson explained in an...